Improvement in methods of attaching springs to carriages



u. s. HALL.

Improvement in Methods of Attaching Springs to Carriages.

Patented May 9,1871.

InV/d'm I emu %iata haunt that URIAH S. HALL, OF OHEMUNG, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS.

' RIGHT TO JESSE OWEN, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 114,676, dated May 9; i871;

IMPROVEMENT lN METHODS OF ATTACHING SPRINGS TOI'CARRIAGES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pan: of the same. '7

:To all whom 'itmay concern! Be it known that I, URIAH S. HALL, of Ohemnng,

in the county of Oheniung and'State of New York, have invented'a new'and valuable Improvement in -Wagon- Springs and Method of Attaching them to other vehicles; and

' It consists in a novel arrangement of the springs and the peculiar manner of attaching them. to the other parts of the vehicle, all as hereinafter specified, the object being. to secure strength, lightness, and economy in a certain class of spring conveyances.

Referring to the drawing, which represents a light spring-wagon, the hind springs a are attached to the axle'b close to the inner end of the hub, by suitable 'means,'as 'a clamp-around the spring and the axle. They. are also attached to the wagon-box in a proper manner, as by a plate and bolts; their position thus being oblique to the wagon-box, they serve as braces as well as springs.

Another spring, 0, in the form shown, may be connected to the wagon-boxnear the center of its length, in a suitable manner, so that its ends will bear-upon the axles only when the load or weight in the box is greater. than the other springs are intended to suppo Y The thills (1 maybe connected to the front axle e, asshown, in a proper manner, so that they will rise up from the upper side of the axleand form bearings "for the front spring f, which is directly over the front axle, and is in the form shown. 1

The spring fis supported on the thills, as shown,

by means of the staple and link 9, Whichwill permit the motion cf-the thills without moving the springs materially; or some other like means 'may be e nployed.

The springs may be made of one or more plates,-

and whenthus ,applied to vehicles they are cheap,

comparatively, and serve as the coupling in connection with the wagon-box, and also as braces.

I claim' as my invention- 1. The combination and arrangement of thesprings an attached to the rear axle? and the vehicle-bed, and the spring f attached to the thills and the vehiclebed, all constructed and connected substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In combination with the foregoing combination, 3

the center spring c, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for thepurposes-set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have here- I unto subscribed my name in the presence of two wit nesses.

Witnesses:

ANDREW J. NIoHoLs, J. Nnw'ron DEXTER.

URIAH s. HALL. i 

